Oh, it's a different problem than what I thought then. (Nothing to do with "global advance"... Sorry.) This looks like a hinting problem with Freetype. I don't think it has anything to do with XFree vs X.org. On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:15:55PM +0200, John Smith wrote: [...] > I'm linking two screenshots. One of Mandrake and one of Ubuntu > (with the problem). > > Notice that also the English is uglier in Ubuntu, (and the > Hebrew is terrible) > > http://www.geocities.com/mimsyboro/Mandrake.png > http://www.geocities.com/mimsyboro/Ubuntu.png > > Mimsy